How LTIMindtree + Alation Power Trusted AI and Data Marketplaces

This blog explores how enterprise leaders can bridge the gap between AI experimentation and measurable business impact through trusted data product marketplaces. Written for C-suite executives, data leaders, and IT decision-makers, it demonstrates how the strategic partnership between Alation and LTIMindtree provides the governance foundation necessary for successful agentic AI transformation—moving organizations from fragmented pilots to scalable, ROI-driven AI platforms.

The executive mandate: Turning AI potential into performance

Today, nearly eight in ten companies report using gen AI—yet just as many report no significant bottom-line impact, according to McKinsey's recent report "Seizing the Agentic AI Advantage." This phenomenon, now recognized as the "gen AI paradox", stems from a fundamental imbalance in how organizations approach AI transformation.

The paradox manifests in real-world enterprise scenarios where companies have successfully deployed horizontal AI solutions—like Microsoft 365 Copilot across their workforce—but struggle to demonstrate concrete business value. Meanwhile, fewer than 10 percent of use cases deployed ever make it past the pilot stage, according to McKinsey research. Organizations find themselves trapped in endless experimentation cycles, with AI initiatives scattered across departments without strategic coordination or measurable outcomes.

The cost of inaction is mounting rapidly. Companies face wasted investments in disconnected AI tools, failed deployments that erode stakeholder confidence, and growing AI fatigue as teams lose faith in transformation promises. Perhaps most critically, organizations risk falling behind competitors who successfully scale AI-driven processes while they remain stuck in pilot purgatory.

What enterprise leaders need now is not more pilots - but platforms, processes, and partnerships that deliver measurable ROI from AI. That’s where Alation and LTIMindtree step in.

Together, we provide the agentic foundation for enterprise-scale AI transformation- where governed, reusable data products fuel proactive AI agents and decision intelligence at speed.

From fragmented metadata to agent-ready data products

At the heart of agentic AI is context, and context lives in metadata.

While most organizations have rich data assets, they often lack the structured, trusted, and discoverable context required to power autonomous AI workflows. This results in either duplicated efforts or decision-making blind spots. McKinsey’s research identifies this as a core blocker for scaling vertical use cases and agentic solutions.

Alation’s Data Intelligence Platform addresses this gap by enabling:

• Rich metadata management with full lineage, ownership, and policy controls

• Scalable federated governance with Trust Flags and usage observability

• Discovery, curation, and activation of business-ready data products—not just datasets

This transformation – from passive metadata to active, intelligent products – is the foundation of a trusted AI ecosystem.

The marketplace model: Mobilizing data at the speed of business

Modern AI isn’t about standalone copilots – it’s about systems of value that connect decision-making to governed data at scale.

By embedding Alation’s intelligence layer into Data Product Marketplaces, organizations can:

• Discover trusted, governed data products by domain

• Monitor lineage, usage, and compliance in real time

• Enable agents to act on contextualized data with confidence

For financial services, this translates into immediate business impact: a productized KYC risk score becomes instantly available to compliance agents across multiple systems, reducing manual review time by 70% while maintaining full audit trails. In healthcare, patient risk stratification models can be deployed across care teams within hours rather than months, enabling proactive interventions that improve outcomes and reduce costs.

Alation's own Data Products Marketplace, integrated within its Data Intelligence Platform, lets teams publish, find, and use high-quality, reusable data products for people, business applications, and AI agents. The platform addresses the common enterprise challenge where quick data access often comes at the cost of quality, while governed, high-quality data is often slow to deliver. Through a user-friendly marketplace, organized by category, teams can quickly find accurate, high-quality data tailored to their needs to speed up decision-making.

These marketplaces are more than portals – they are intelligent orchestration hubs that bridge data, AI, and action.

Accelerating execution with strategic activation: The role of LTIMindtree

If Alation is the intelligence core, LTIMindtree is the activation engine.

As McKinsey notes, vertical use cases require more than tools - they require strategic redesign of processes around agents, business goals, and operating models.

LTIMindtree provides:

• Domain-specific frameworks to reinvent core workflows

• Implementation squads blending data, AI, and systems engineering

• Industry blueprints for financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and more

Together, LTIMindtree and Alation help organizations move from metadata management to metadata-powered automation – fueling vertical AI use cases like risk modeling, claims automation, demand forecasting, and precision marketing.

Solving the AI trust gap: Governance, observability, and speed

McKinsey’s report underscores that the key challenges of agentic AI are not just technical, but human: trust, governance, and adoption. AI systems fail when employees don’t understand how decisions are made, when business leaders can’t verify results, or when regulators question compliance. These aren’t just coding issues – they are change management challenges that hinge on confidence, accountability, and cross-team alignment. Without trust, adoption stalls, even if the technology is sound.

The Alation + LTIMindtree partnership solves for this with:

• Governed autonomy: Every agent action is tied back to trusted metadata, critical for regulated industries like healthcare and banking where compliance failures can result in millions in fines and reputational damage

• End-to-end observability: Users can trace every decision and data product used

• Cross-functional alignment: Business, IT, and data leaders work within a unified governance model

We don’t just support safe AI, we make trust the foundation of every AI decision.

From experimentation to transformation: An ROI-driven approach

Organizations that reframe their AI approach – moving from “What can AI do?” to “How can agents drive business results?” – see rapid gains. According to McKinsey:

• Agentic architectures reduce time to insight by 50–90%

• Vertical use cases, once reimagined, yield 30–60% productivity improvements

• Autonomous workflows unlock new revenue streams and business models

With over 40 shared customers, Alation and LTIMindtree are helping enterprises realize this vision today.

Reinvent, don’t retrofit

As McKinsey makes clear, the next era of enterprise performance will be led by organizations that embed agents into the fabric of how they operate, rather than bolting AI onto legacy systems.

With Alation’s agentic data intelligence platform and LTIMindtree’s strategy, consulting, and delivery services, organizations can:

• Mobilize trusted data through AI-ready marketplaces

• Activate agents with full governance and domain specificity

• Drive ROI through reimagined business processes

This is not augmentation. It’s reinvention.

Ready to power agentic transformation?

Your enterprise doesn’t need another siloed chatbot. It needs a foundation for intelligent action—powered by trust, speed, and strategy.

Alation and LTIMindtree are ready to help you build it.

Learn from industry leaders Indivar Nayyar and Jonathan Bruce from LTIMindtree and Alation in this exclusive on-demand session as they share how to:

• Power AI with trusted data

• Build the next-gen data product marketplace

• Unlock the true advantage of agentic AI

🎥 Watch the recorded session now and start building your AI future.

Let’s unlock the agentic AI advantage—together.